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47 Tuc is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Across much of the world, the second brightest globular cluster in the sky , 47 Tuc (NGC 104; mag 4.0), in Tucana will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 27 September it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Columbus , however, it is not observable because it lies so far south that it never rises above the horizon.

At a declination of 72°04'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 2°S.

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At magnitude 4.0, NGC104 is tricky to make out with the naked eye except from a dark site, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC104 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC104 00h24m00s 72°04'S Tucana 4.0 31'48"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 28 Sep 2029

The sky on 28 September 2029
Sunrise
07:22
Sunset
19:18
Twilight ends
20:48
Twilight begins
05:52

20-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

70%

20 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:57 12:18 18:38
Venus 11:16 16:09 21:01
Moon 21:49 05:23 12:59
Mars 12:19 17:04 21:48
Jupiter 09:28 14:55 20:22
Saturn 21:31 04:32 11:32
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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